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Platform Engineer
The Platform Engineer in the Consumer Centricity Platform Operations team is responsible for the reliable, secure, and stable operation of the organization’s high-availability cloud platform, built on Kubernetes and composed of multiple in-house platform components.
The role focuses on platform lifecycle management, day-2 operations, incident response, and operational excellence, ensuring that customer-facing Web UIs and APIs remain available, performant, and secure 24/7.
The Platform Engineer acts as a technical custodian of the platform, providing a stable foundation on which service teams can safely deploy and operate their workloads.
Primary Objectives
Maintain platform availability and reliability in accordance with SLOs/SLAs
Ensure operational readiness of all environments (DEV / TEST / ACC / PROD)
Provide 24/7 operational coverage for critical platform services (via on-call)
Ensure the platform is observable, secure, well-controlled and documented
Execute platform changes, upgrades, and maintenance in a predictable and low-risk manner
Key Responsibilities
Kubernetes & Runtime Operations
Operate Kubernetes primitives and platform add-ons:
Ingress controllers, service discovery, workload identity
Troubleshoot Kubernetes-related failures:
Pod lifecycle issues, networking problems, resource starvation
Controlled rollouts with rollback plans
Reliability & 24/7 Incident Response
Participate in the 24/7 on-call rotation for critical services (incident responder)
Lead or contribute to:
Incident triage and mitigation
Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Post-incident action tracking and follow-up
Maintain and improve runbooks and operational procedures
Observability & Monitoring
Operate (and use) the open-source observability platform
Ensure effective observability across the platform:
Metrics, logs, and distributed traces
Actionable alerts
Reduced false positives
Support incident analysis through correlation and telemetry inspection
Change, Release & Maintenance Management
Plan and execute platform changes
Follow structured change management practices
Stakeholder communication
Ensure platform changes are documented and auditable
Security & Compliance (Operational Focus)
Operate platform security controls: RBAC, network boundaries, secret mgmt.
Apply security updates and patches to platform components
Support vulnerability remediation efforts
Provide operational evidence for audits and security reviews
Automation & Operational Improvement
Automate repetitive operational tasks where appropriate
Reduce operational risk through standardization and documented procedures
Platform as Code approach (GitOps)
Requirements:
Technical skills
Kubernetes (Deep Production Expertise)
Multi-cluster architecture & lifecycle management
RBAC & least-privilege design
Network policies & traffic segmentation
Stateful workloads & storage strategy (CSI, PV/PVC)
Autoscaling (HPA/VPA) & resource tuning
Pod Security Standards
Admission controllers
Performance & reliability troubleshooting
Cluster-level debugging (networking, DNS, scheduling, OOM, crash loops)
GitOps & Continuous Delivery
ArgoCD (advanced usage)
App-of-Apps pattern
Sync waves & hooks
Drift detection & reconciliation
Multi-environment promotion workflows
Git-based deployment strategy with version management
Declarative platform design with PR-driven changes
YAML-based CI/CD pipelines with Harness.io
Secure secret handling in CI/CD (with HashiCorp)
Packaging & Configuration
Helm (advanced chart authoring)
Reusable library charts
OCI-based registries
Values layering strategy
Kustomize overlays for multi-environment isolation and strategic patches
Container & Artifact Management
Docker (secure multi-stage builds, optimization)
Harbor (RBAC, replication, vulnerability scanning)
JFrog Artifactory (Docker & Helm registry management)
Artifact versioning & promotion strategy
Secrets & Security
HashiCorp Vault for dynamic secrets with CSI integration
Image vulnerability scanning integration
Supply chain security awareness
TLS & certificate lifecycle management
RBAC governance
Observability & Reliability
OpenTelemetry (metrics, logs, traces)
Prometheus or VictoriaMetrics (recording rules, HA setup)
Loki (log aggregation & LogQL)
Tempo (distributed tracing)
Grafana (advanced dashboards & alerting)
SLI/SLO design & error budget thinking
Alert noise reduction strategy
Networking (Advanced)
TCP/IP & DNS fundamentals
TLS & mTLS concepts
Kubernetes Services, Ingress & Reverse Proxy concepts
East-west vs north-south traffic
API routing & traffic management
Network Policies implementation
Automation
Advanced Bash scripting
Infrastructure automation mindset
Nice to Have
Kong API Gateway (api routing, plugins, authentication, rate limiting)
Redis (operational knowledge: deployment, persistence, clustering, backups)
PostgreSQL (migrations, backups, HA basics, Kubernetes deployment patterns)
MongoDB (replica sets, backups, Kubernetes deployment patterns)
Kargo on top
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